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Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Collaborative research aims to restore biodiversity and improve agronomic systems (Grupo Cultivar)

June 29, 2021


Grupo Cultivar (Brazil) published an article on Bayer, IFPRI, and the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) announcing the development of a collaborative study aimed at helping agriculture to develop and implement new solutions to reduce impacts on biodiversity. This is the first global partnership to focus on large-scale crops such as wheat, corn, and soybeans. Senior research fellow Wei Zhang said, “Supporting these initiatives and producing healthy food in sufficient quantities to feed the growing global population requires this kind of collaborative approach.” 

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